"A lot of the geeks that I respect most… are very excited about where we're going. So I'm going to choose to work for them."

His co-stars Ming-Na Wen and Brett Dalton also criticized a section of the audience for wanting answers to the show's overarching mysteries too soon.

"I love our fans so much, but they want the end of it already," Wen said. "We have 22 episodes and, hopefully, years to come of stories and developing characters, and all we want is our fans to just be patient and not come down hard. Go with us. It's a slower ride."